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Mark Espiner, Tom Espiner and Dan Jones founded Sound&Fury.

Mark Espiner

Mark Espiner graduated in Classics from Oxford and has worked as a multimedia producer, researcher, national journalist and in the theatre. He directed War Music at BAC, 1998, as part of its In The Dark season. As a freelance journalist he has written for The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday, Wired and the Wire magazine where he was a columnist for three years on new forms of music. He is a regular theatre critic for Time Out and music critic for the Evening Standard and has made feature pieces on music and the arts for BBC Radio 3 and 4. He recently assistant directed and stage managed Disembodied for the David Glass Ensemble and is currently writing and developing future projects for Sound&Fury.

Tom Espiner

Tom Espiner trained as an actor at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. His theatre and television credits include Peggy For You (Hampstead, West End and tour), Orsino in Twelfth Night and Florizel in The Winter’s Tale (Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory), War Music and The Watery Part of the World (Sound&Fury), Anybody’s Nightmare (ITV), Without Motive (ITV). He also works as a Foley artist, creating dubbed sound effects for film and natural history documentaries. Credits include Stagefright (aardman), Natural World, Wildlife on One (BBC1).

Dan Jones

Dan Jones trained in theatre direction at the Banff Centre for the Arts and in composition as recipient of the Ralph Vaughan Williams electro-acoustic scholarship at the Centro Richerche Musicali, Rome. His commissioned scores for theatre and film include Slippage for the Rambert Dance Company, Tom Rerts’ Death Train (C4 True Stories), and sound design for Each Day Dies with Sleep and the House Among the Stars by Michel Tremblay (The Orange Tree, Richmond). He wrote the score for the Academy Award nominated feature film Shadow of the Vampire starring John Malkovich and Willem Defoe and produced by Nicholas Cage, and is currently writing the score for the BBC’s forthcoming natural history series Mammals, presented by David Attenborough. His music is published by Faber.